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Triple life of the killer cop who treated women like meat as he is cleared of murdering his lover - Daily Mail
Triple life of killer cop who treated women like meat: As 'man w**re' PC is cleared of murder but faces jail for manslaughter of his lover, TOM RAWSTORNE reveals how life juggling his wife and two mistresses was all a 'game'
- Timothy Brehmer allegedly throttled his lover Claire Parry in a car in Dorset
- She had threatened to reveal the nature of their affair to his wife Martha
- Jurors found him not guilty of murder after he had admitted manslaughter
- Brehmer was described as a 'womaniser' during his Salisbury Crown Court trial
The month was October 2011 and Tim Brehmer and a colleague were making headlines in their local newspaper after rescuing a family and their three cats from a house fire.
'We are very glad that we could be of help,' the police constable said. 'But we were just doing our job.' What the 41-year-old officer failed to make clear was just how all encompassing 'the job' was to him.
For starters, he was married to it – Martha, his wife of five years, was a detective in the same force, Dorset Police. But she wasn't the only woman in his life.
Betrayal: PC Tim Brehmer married wife Martha (pictured together) in 2006, then proceeded to have a string of affairs
In the autumn of 2011 he'd started an affair with another member of staff – Kate Rhodes, a community support officer who would also go on to become a detective.
He'd swept the younger woman off her feet with his charm and charisma – and by not mentioning the fact that he was married.
For many, juggling a job and two women working side-by-side in the same organisation would have been hard enough.
But not for PC Brehmer, a man on a mission to make the most of his position.
Because he already had a third woman on the go – Claire Parry, a nurse who'd been his lover since 2009, just three years after his own wedding, and whom he continued seeing even after she got married in 2010. Her new husband? Another policeman in the same force.
Despite that, their relationship would continue for the next decade. It didn't stop when she had her two children. It didn't stop when Brehmer became a father himself. And it didn't stop when earlier this year Mrs Parry's husband, Brehmer's colleague, accused him of cheating with his wife.
Claire Perry (pictured) was killed after she threatened to reveal the nature of her affair with Brehmer to his wife
Because Brehmer didn't care. Describing himself as a 'devious bastard', he arrogantly believed he had his double – or triple – life under control.
At home he was a doting husband and father, a pillar of the community. Away from home, he was only interested in one thing, referring to DC Rhodes as a 'dirty bitch' he pestered her for sex and treated her like 'meat'. It is suspected there were other lovers as well.
It was all a 'game' to Brehmer who set the rules, making the women communicate via an encrypted messaging service and banning them from talking about his wife or their partners.
But, after all those years of getting away with it, in May of this year Brehmer finally lost control as the scales fell from Mrs Parry's eyes. She realised he was using her – and that he was nothing more than 'a man-whore' and 'groomer' with 'a tool kit' to woo any woman he met.
Instead of facing up to the consequences, Brehmer's only thought was to save his own skin.
Arrogant: Brehmer was a traffic officer for nine years for Dorset Police where his wife was a detective in the same force
Confronting Mrs Parry, he stabbed himself in the arm, hoping that if she thought he was suicidal she would not carry out her threat to tell his wife.
When she ignored his pleas, exactly what happened next remains unclear – other than that in what he described as a 'kerfuffle' his lover would sustain a fatal compression injury to her neck.
While Brehmer would accept responsibility for her death, pleading guilty to manslaughter, he denied that he had deliberately strangled her.
Yesterday, a jury at Salisbury Crown Court cleared him of murder. After the verdict was delivered, and ahead of sentencing today, the dead woman's husband read out a statement in court: 'This is how I feel about Brehmer, he is the worst kind of thief,' PC Andrew Parry said. 'He has stolen a mother, wife, daughter, sister, aunty, niece and friend.
'Claire meant so much to so many people. He has robbed me of the opportunity to try and save my marriage and keep my family together. He has robbed our children of a million hugs and kisses from their mummy.
In the autumn of 2011 he'd started an affair with another member of staff – Kate Rhodes (pictured), a community support officer who would also go on to become a detective
'It is simply impossible to quantify what he has taken from us, so much that can never be replaced ... Brehmer hasn't left a hole in our lives, a hole has edges, a beginning and an end. Brehmer has left a gaping chasm in our lives that will stretch on for eternity.'
Born in Zimbabwe, Brehmer came to the UK with his parents as a toddler. His mother was Zimbabwean and his father, a fleet supervisor for a courier firm, a South African with a British passport.
One of three siblings, he was raised in Andover, Hampshire. His parents split when he was young and he went to live with his mum, becoming effectively estranged from his dad as a teenager.
After school, he took a degree in disaster and hazard management at a university in New Zealand, one of only a few places to then offer the course, before returning to the UK in 1999.
On his induction evening to Dorset Police in October 2003, aged 23, he met his future wife.
Arrested by his colleagues, in subsequent interviews he would repeatedly insist: 'I'm not a bad man'
The pair married in 2006 at a picturesque church in the New Forest and two years later set up home in a £230,000 cottage in a village near Lymington, Hampshire.
'He was a lovely guy, they were just smitten with each other,' said a family friend. 'I know he took his marriage very seriously so I was really surprised to hear that he had been having an affair. He didn't seem the type.'
In fact within just three years of his marriage he was cheating on his wife, firstly with Mrs Parry, a nurse at Royal Bournemouth Hospital who initially had no idea that he was married.
After his arrest, Brehmer described their affair was 'on and off'. 'Claire could offer me and I hoped I could offer Claire some excitement, all the good stuff and not the bad stuff of relationships,' he would say in a police interview after her death.
'I clearly am just a ******* deviant, but I was with Claire on and off for a number of years. Somehow we would connect back up again.
'We had a relationship and I cared for her, I can't say I loved her but I didn't want to leave my wife because I loved her and she's absolutely brilliant and amazing.'
In July 2010, Claire married fellow police officer Andrew Parry.
Photographs on Facebook show the newlyweds celebrating their 'amazing' honeymoon in Egypt, posing arm-in-arm in front of the pyramids and enjoying a glass of wine in a luxury hotel.
But a year later, PC Parry became suspicious that all was not well in his marriage: In September 2011, he saw an email on her computer that said 'she would never love anyone like she loved him'.
'She promised me it was an old email sent a long time ago,' Mr Parry said in a statement read out to court. 'Claire was very distressed and deleted the email, I couldn't check when it had been sent.'
In October of that year Mrs Parry gave birth to a daughter. At around the same time Brehmer embarked on an affair with DC Rhodes.
Giving evidence, she described how Brehmer swept her off her feet. Like Mrs Parry, she too believed Brehmer was single.
'He was charming and very personable and charismatic,' she said. 'I quickly fell in love with Tim. We engaged in sexual contact but not full intercourse.
'I found out from a conversation in the office that Tim was married to a detective,' she said. 'I was really upset, I thought we had a relationship that was about to start and I was looking forward to it. I broke it off but it was difficult.'
And all the more difficult because Brehmer wouldn't give up on her.
Even after DC Rhodes married in 2015 he pursued her, making her 'feel like a piece of meat' by texting while she was on holiday with her husband, calling her a 'dirty bitch' and suggesting they meet for sex.
By then she was working at Bournemouth CID, where Brehmer's wife also worked.
A police photograph of Brehmer's grey Citroen car in which Claire Parry died at the Horns Inn
And yet all the time, Brehmer was playing the doting husband and father. A YouTube video posted in 2013 shows him playing with his baby son. In one called 'Chatting with my five-month-old son' he playfully – and a little creepily – asks the boy: 'What secrets would you like to tell me? What secrets do you know?'
Earlier this year, the 'spinning plates' of his life started to wobble dangerously.
By then, after nine years as a traffic officer, he had been seconded to the National Police Air Service based at Bournemouth airport. Mother of two Mrs Parry was working as nurse practitioner at a medical centre in Bournemouth, Dorset – and their affair continued.
Her husband was increasingly suspicious, having found Travelodge bookings on their joint bank account and a man's rugby shirt under the couple's marital bed.
He also found a Valentine's card hidden in their bedroom addressed to 'Curly Toes', which he said must have been his wife because she 'did have especially curly toes'.
Using his daughter's phone he tracked her car as she left work and saw she had travelled to Bournemouth Airport, where Brehmer was based.
When confronted, his wife claimed she had gone to the airport to look at the British Airways planes on the runway. Brehmer told a similar story when PC Parry confronted him outright.
Two sketches of Brehmer giving evidence in his trial at Salisbury Crown Court last week
'I asked him what had been going on and he gave me some well-rehearsed response which matched Claire's,' he said.
'I told him 'now is the opportunity to tell me everything, if I found out you are lying I will tell your wife'. He said, 'That is everything'.' Even then Brehmer didn't have the decency to call it off.
On May 6, three days before Mrs Parry's death, she had sex with Brehmer at her family home.
The following day she attended a counselling session with her husband, who by now believed their marriage was over.
At the same time Mrs Parry was growing increasingly angry at Brehmer and became determined to expose the lie behind his 'perfect life'. Having learned of his affair with DC Rhodes, she contacted her.
Dorset Police issued this mugshot of Brehmer after he was acquitted of murdering his long-term lover
The pair established that Brehmer was likely to have had more lovers in the emergency services, including another police officer.
'It was cathartic hearing about his trademark ways and realising I was not his only victim,' DC Rhodes said.
Meanwhile Mrs Parry said she intended to ruin Brehmer's life by telling his wife as well as referring him to the police watchdog and reporting him to the taxman for failing to declare a second income he made from gardening jobs. In her messages to DC Rhodes, Mrs Parry wrote 'Hell hath no fury' and said she was 'embarking on a long and slow downfall of Mr man-whore Brehmer'.
She added: 'He always told me there had never been another woman and I was special to him. I hate him for the issues I am now facing in my marriage.'
Days before she died, she drafted a note to Brehmer's wife on her phone – one she never ended up sending. It read: 'There is no easy way to say it but put simply your husband is a man whore.
'Myself and others have fallen victim to his words and charms, his promises of being in a loveless marriage to only staying for the sake of your children.
'He sucked me in years ago and made me believe he and I had a future until he realised you were pregnant. He didn't tell me about you at first, that he was married and when I found out he told me he was going to leave.
'I have since realised I was not the only one he has weaved this story to, there are at least two more. He tells us that we are special that he has fallen in love with us.' And so it was that on May 9, Mrs Parry summoned Brehmer to a meeting in a pub car park in West Parley, Dorset,
Due to attend a family barbecue, Brehmer kissed his wife goodbye and told her he was just nipping out to buy some steak. The pair have not spoken since.
When they met, Mrs Parry took Brehmer's phone and used it to send a message to his wife saying: 'I am cheating on you.'
The prosecution alleged that Brehmer then took hold of her neck tightly in the crux of his arm, squeezing the life out of her as she struggled to get out of his car.
But Brehmer maintained any injuries she sustained were not intentional, claiming he was trying to push Mrs Parry out of the car in a struggle and 'fell on top of her by accident'. Arrested by his colleagues, in subsequent interviews he would repeatedly insist: 'I'm not a bad man.'
Given the trail of death and devastation he has left in his wake, it's a claim unlikely to garner the slightest flicker of sympathy.
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Coronavirus: New rules on 'essential' items in Welsh shops - but are they more confusing? - Sky News
Fresh guidance has been released about what "essential items" people can buy from supermarkets in Wales during lockdown.
It comes after days of anger over which items count.
But the Welsh government's latest update was in danger of sparking more confusion by saying that a "sensible system should be introduced" to let customers buy "non-essential items by exception".
The new list was published on Tuesday evening, following talks with retailers about the policy in force during the 17-day "firebreak" to stem coronavirus cases.
From now on, ministers say the following essential products can be sold:
- Food and drink
- Products ancillary to the sale of food and drink, primarily disposable items used for the preparation and storage of food (such as kitchen foil, food bags and cling film) but also basic products necessary to prepare and eat food and drink
- Products for washing clothes and for cleaning and maintaining the home, including batteries, light bulbs and fuel
- Toiletries and cosmetic products, including toilet rolls and sanitary products
- Pharmaceutical products
- Baby products including equipment, clothes and nappies
- Newspapers and magazines
- Stationery and greetings cards
- Pet food and other pet supplies
- Products for the maintenance of bicycles and cars
The new list had to be issued after a woman said on Monday she could not get hold of sanitary products in a Tesco. The supermarket later apologised.
And another person was seen pulling off plastic sheeting covering some shelves, used to stop customers buying products. A man was later charged by police.
The Welsh government said they were hopeful the new list "provides a workable solution for retailers and customers".
However they potentially seeded more confusion by suggesting people can still buy non-essential items "by exception under the regulations".
Asked to clarify who would decide on any exception and how, the government said it was for supermarkets to introduce a practical system and facilitate it.
"We'll continue to have discussions with supermarkets over the coming days as to how this will be implemented in stores across Wales," a spokesperson added.
Under the original advice, stores had been given some licence to decide which items count as essential.
The rules put out last week said: "In any cases where there may be doubt as to whether a product can be sold (for example as to whether a product for the home is truly a necessity) shops will be expected to use their best endeavours to consider what should be available."
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2020-10-27 20:22:00Z
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Wales lockdown: Baby clothes listed as essential by ministers - BBC News
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2020-10-27 19:32:00Z
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Coronavirus Scotland: Some pubs can serve alcohol indoors next week - Daily Mail
Pubs and restaurants in many areas of Scotland will be able to serve alcohol indoors again from next week as Nicola Sturgeon EASES coronavirus curfew restrictions
- The First Minister made a raft of changes to the country's hospitality rules today
- Pubs in Level 3 - currently closed - can open until 6pm but not serve alcohol
- Curfew in the new Level 1 and 2 areas will be extended from 10pm to 10.30pm
- Pubs in Level 2 will also be allowed to serve alcohol indoors again to diners
Nicola Sturgeon relaxed Scotland's coronavirus lockdown rules today, allowing some pubs to serve alcohol indoors again from next week in a boost for the nation's beleaguered pubs.
The First Minister bowed to business pressure to make a raft of changes to the country's hospitality rules as she provided more detail about a new five-tier lockdown due to come into force on Monday.
Pubs in Level 3 which are currently closed by law will be allowed to reopen until 6pm but not serve alcohol, she told the Scottish Parliament, a move which will help those which also serve food.
Additionally, the curfew in the new Level 1 and 2 areas will be extended from 10pm to 10.30pm. Pubs in Level 2 will also be allowed to serve alcohol indoors again, but only to people eating a meal, and before 8pm.
Under restrictions currently in place, the only place thirsty Scots can drink indoors is at home.
Bars and licensed restaurants in five health board areas - Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Arran, Lothian and Forth Valley - have been forced to close for all but takeaway services.
Pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes elsewhere in Scotland are only allowed to serve indoor customers between 6am and 6pm with a ban on alcohol inside, although alcoholic drinks can be served until 10pm in outdoor areas.
The First Minister said: 'For all of Scotland our aim is to get to Level 1 and then to Level 0 of the framework as quickly as it is possible to do.
'We know it is possible because over the summer we got to the very low levels of transmission that would be needed for that. If we can do that once we can do it again, but it will not be easy.'
She urged Scots to 'dig in', saying this could allow people to enjoy some more normality over the festive period.
The First Minister made a raft of changes to the country's hospitality rules as she provided more detail about a new five-tier lockdown due to come into force on Monday
Heatmap shows which parts of Scotland recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases in the most recent week up to October 25
Glasgow was still the country's hotspot in the week prior, when there were 800 fewer cases overall
Speaking about the restrictions, the First Minister said: 'It is difficult and frustrating, and getting more so by the day, especially as we head towards Christmas.
'If we dig in now and get Covid under more control, we perhaps open the door not to 100 per cent normality by Christmas, but hopefully more than we have right now. We all want to see that.'
The debate at Holyrood took place after Scotland recorded another 25 deaths from coronavirus and 1,327 positive tests in the past 24 hours.
Ms Sturgeon also warned that North and South Lanarkshire - a vast area between Glasgow and Edinburgh in the central belt, could be put into the top Level 4 next week.
She told Holyrood ministers wanted to avoid the move unless it was 'absolutely necessary', and said a decision would be delayed to the last minute because virus cases were 'stabilising' in the area.
In a debate on the new system, Ms Sturgeon said: 'As has been reported, we are considering whether the very high rate of transmission and hospital admissions in North and South Lanarkshire may necessitate a move for them to Level 4. These are the only areas currently being considered for Level 4.
'There have, however, been some encouraging signs in the last few days that the situation in Lanarkshire may have stabilised slightly.
'We will only take this decision if it is deemed absolutely necessary and I hope we can avoid it.'
On Tuesday, the Scottish Government published an updated draft of guidance on what restrictions would be in place under each of the five tiers applied to local authorities.
In Level 4, both indoor and outdoor hospitality businesses would close - including cafes, restaurants, pubs and bars.
However, takeaways for food and alcohol will be permitted.
The guidance also recommends against non-essential travel in or out of Level 4 areas and says there could be 'limits on travel distance, or a requirement to stay at home'.
Non-essential retail would also close in Level 4 areas, with the exception of clock and collect and outdoor retail.
Last week Ms Sturgeon signalled she was open to reviewing the curfew rules as she faced a barrage of criticism from the hospitality industry.
Outlining the new Level 0 - 4 system live on television on Friday she held out an olive branch to hospitality businesses who blasted the harsh new restrictions, which would place some level of barre on trading at all levels.
She said while she would listen to arguments about trying to keep some pubs and restaurants open at higher tiers but she would not promise to make changes.
A 'circuit breaker' lockdown has already been in force north of the border for a more than a fortnight, with bars and restaurants restricted from serving alcohol and shut altogether in much of the country. It has been extended until November 2, when the new system comes into operation.
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2020-10-27 17:17:00Z
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Coronavirus: 367 more COVID-19 deaths in UK - highest daily figure since May - Sky News
The UK has recorded 367 more COVID-19 deaths in the latest 24-hour period, official figures show.
It is the highest daily figure since 27 May, when 422 fatalities were reported.
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Yesterday, it was announced 102 people had died within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test.
There have now been a total of 45,365 coronavirus deaths, according to government data.
A further 22,885 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases have been announced in the latest 24-hour period, taking the total to 917,575.
Monday's number of infections was 20,890.
Meanwhile, separate figures from the Office for National Statistics show the number of weekly registered deaths involving coronavirus rose by more than half in seven days.
There were 670 fatalities registered in England and Wales which mentioned "novel coronavirus" in the week ending 16 October, the ONS said.
This is a rise of 53% from the previous week, when 438 deaths involving COVID-19 were registered.
It is the sixth successive rise and the highest number of registered deaths involving coronavirus since the week ending 19 June.
Deaths increased in all regions in England and Wales, and in hospitals, care homes, hospices, private homes and other communal establishments.
Dr Yvonne Doyle, medical director of Public Health England, warned the rising number of deaths was likely to "continue for some time".
She said: "We continue to see the trend in deaths rising and it is likely this will continue for some time.
"Each day we see more people testing positive and hospital admissions increasing.
"Being seriously ill enough from the infection to need hospital admission can sadly lead to more COVID-related deaths."
Hopes the population will become immune to COVID-19 have been dashed by new research showing antibodies fall rapidly after recovering from the disease.
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Herd immunity has been proposed by some scientists as a better alternative to lockdowns in tackling the coronavirus pandemic.
It would require around 50-60% of the population to have protection against the virus so it could no longer transmit efficiently.
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